We spend a day at Baotou Steelworks watching the SY locos at work within the works and at the slag tip. Nice and dirty industrial locations and spectacular slag tipping!
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@SatelliteYL3 жыл бұрын
No masks, no respirators, just pure vibes
@eeeeeek3 жыл бұрын
good ol days
@DavidOfeldt3 жыл бұрын
Just carcinogens, living in the moment
@Leo12391503 жыл бұрын
David Ofeldt cause the moment is all you got (left)
@OfficialUSKRprogram3 жыл бұрын
Okay calm down kids, there are plenty of people who lived through the age of steam and made it to 80 years old Don't pretend you're healthier than they were.
@charleswhittington18423 жыл бұрын
Not a phone in sight, everyone just living in the moment
@lawdpleasehelpmeno3 жыл бұрын
It's like watching film from 1800's London.
@charleswhittington18423 жыл бұрын
To be fair, steam engines were still the mainstay of locomotives in Europe and the US up until the 1960s
@klenner3 жыл бұрын
The hell on earth that is china
@steeveomcjameson86733 жыл бұрын
Me: what year was that steamer made? Chinese train engineer: 1996
@Herbaling3 жыл бұрын
Probably one of few places where you could say “Do you taste metal?” and it would NOT be radiation
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Yeah you could just about chew the air...
@Ivangode14333 жыл бұрын
you can probably chew that air
@SuperMikado2825 ай бұрын
It is a great video with some spectacular camera work, especially at the end.
@steamfreak5 ай бұрын
Thanks! It was amazing to see.
@guguigugu3 жыл бұрын
basically this was UK 150 years ago
@fadawi27553 жыл бұрын
90 years seems more appropriate
@idontwanttopickone2 жыл бұрын
@@fadawi2755 parts of the UK still looked like this in the 1960s. Just the footage from that time is more positive and technicolour.
@robertsulley3 жыл бұрын
A great video, some lovely shots and great audio! Thank you!
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It was quite an experience to go and see that!
@cuzinitr11 жыл бұрын
Great video,one of the best Chinese steam video's that I have watched. Beautiful sunset shot. Well done!
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@rustybaws53133 жыл бұрын
I heard the workers chain smoke a pack of cigarettes to get some fresh air.
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
🤣😂😅
@youreshouldoflearntgrammer82773 жыл бұрын
Lmao 😂
@haaseshouseoscience63775 жыл бұрын
Excellent catches, also the slag cars almost look like they have a smile face.
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, it was pretty spectacular!
@TheOneAndOnlyZeno Жыл бұрын
Thomas the Tank Engine moment
@FUNKER4203 жыл бұрын
Anyone else have this in recommended? KZfaq gods know were into trains and or history.
@goronguy103 жыл бұрын
Finally I have found another train and history brother
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Those steam locos are amazing machines!
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
They do!
@arthurkinch18043 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, watching in 2021.
@wolstenholme10011 жыл бұрын
Wonderful location and atmosphere. Thanks.
@landmine14243 жыл бұрын
😂
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@MegaMech3 жыл бұрын
Wow the end of the video is beautiful.
@Whit3Eyes3 жыл бұрын
i was born exactly a week before this was filmed. lol
@tahititoutou38023 жыл бұрын
Each time I watch those Chinese train videos, I am always impressed by the density of the smog. Some Chinese workers must have very serious lung and artery diseases!
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Yes I think you're right. It hung like a a pall over the cities.
@chaitanyarao55463 жыл бұрын
In which case I recommend you go to Google maps, bring up this factory, and check out the lake next to it. This place is among the worst polluted places in the world.
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
@@chaitanyarao5546 Yes, it was pretty bad. Other lakes and rivers were also pretty nasty.
@Herbaling3 жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak has? Has this changed since then? Is it any better now?
@SuperMikado2825 ай бұрын
It's no different from what the UK was like at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
@doncornetto3 жыл бұрын
Ahh so this is where all those liveleak clips come from
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
I'm still coughing after visiting there...
@Spalterbockl11 жыл бұрын
Hello Trevor, I liked your video very much! However I like to point out that all the engines were in fact industrial type SY, as it is befitting, neither JS nor JF! The glint shot is marvellous as well as the sunset shot! SB 2012
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
Thank for the info.
@steamfreak11 жыл бұрын
Actually, there is one JS in the video... There were a couple working that day but I didn't seem to video them in action...
@steamfreak11 жыл бұрын
Good point! Text amended.
@ZaneSnA Жыл бұрын
Mesmerizing
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@blackthorne5711 жыл бұрын
Been there-done that, many thanks for for reviving the memories. Great video, thanks for posting. Was that a gricer standing at the foot of the slag tip at about 9:65? What a nutter. I believe that at about the year your video was shot a Japanese gricer was killed at a steelworks by molten slag, causing great problems for subsiquent visitors.
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
Yes it was a gricer! He got good photos I think! 😬
@SenorMcChum Жыл бұрын
i would love to go there !!
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
I think it is all diesel now, but a very interesting place.
@ratking948 Жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak is there any more recent videos anywhere?
@steamfreak11 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was before this video was taken, but was quit ethe topic of discussion. Yes, it was a gricer standing at the bottom!
@steamcrank11 жыл бұрын
Hi Love your work not only for the trains but the heavy industrial environment. Would love to take my camera there for a day. Holding the camera still is a great technique. Teamcrank
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
That's mainly because I'm also taking stills!
@wantahertzdonut3 жыл бұрын
8:00 I love the juxtaposition of the steam locomotive with the nuclear power plant cooling tower in the background
@alexchapman10553 жыл бұрын
Looks like a nuclear power plant cooling tower, but very unlikely. Probably just a cooling tower for water that is used during the steel production.
@northsimulation33863 жыл бұрын
Those cooling towers are not proprietary to nuclear power, they range from coal plants to steel as you are seeings here, basically anything that has boiling water which needs to be condensed and doesn’t have a large water body to do the job.
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I think it was a coal power station
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Yes, coal power station I think
@player3prime3 жыл бұрын
what the heck were they doing at the 10min mark?
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Tipping the molten slag down the dump. Looked very pretty!
@youreshouldoflearntgrammer82773 жыл бұрын
This is like when I discover Steam Power in Civilization 3
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
It's awesome! 🙂
@M.D.design3 жыл бұрын
What type of mechanism make the slag pot dumping?
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
I believe it was air operated from the train air lines, but open to correction!
@LudeauvieK5 жыл бұрын
Slip wheels 👍
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Yep. Heavy loads.
@chrismcgarry28403 жыл бұрын
Interesting how this is in the same country as the world's most extensive HSR network!
@Michael-di2ng3 жыл бұрын
HSR are only built around 2008, this film 2001
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Not much steam left there now
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@stratusfractus1118 ай бұрын
At 5:14 are those open hearth scrap buggies?
@steamfreak8 ай бұрын
I'm not actually sure what they are?
@PA-ex9qb3 жыл бұрын
How the hell did you get permission to film this wonderful stuff?
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Local contacts! Not sure it would be so possible now though.
@wertiaaudit57462 жыл бұрын
Wait yA'll are getting permission .U.S constitution extends across the universe and it's god given right some guy in the old supreme court said so
@jackuzi82523 жыл бұрын
China has to import most of its oil, but has plenty of domestic coal. Combined with low labor costs (especially away from the coastal cities), steam power can make good sense there.
@wertiaaudit57462 жыл бұрын
Nah, it definitely has its own oil judging off Google satellites they just choose to drain other countries oil first
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Yep, and it was good to see,
@RagbagMcShag3 жыл бұрын
so they are just pouring the slags down the side of a hill? interesting
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
The hill is made of slag!
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
They seem to have stopped doing that for some reason?
@AluminumOxide19 күн бұрын
Just two weeks into the 21st century
@steamfreak17 күн бұрын
And it was good!
@davedon46168 ай бұрын
I don’t understand the steam engine for the trains. Even if this video is 22 years old
@steamfreak8 ай бұрын
China was using steam locomotives in everyday service until just a few years ago.
@jonhart91763 жыл бұрын
How did you obtain this vision?
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
I visited the steelworks and took video and photos.
@jonhart91763 жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak Very interesting. Not sure today that you’d be allowed there. Thanks for the reply.
@wertiaaudit57462 жыл бұрын
He's dressed as thomas the train and was recording inside his suit
@gtsolidrossi4611 жыл бұрын
why does the steel is overturned over the edge?
@acrobaticcripple81766 жыл бұрын
Not steel. It's slag. A by-product of the process. I'm no expert, but it's probably, mostly limestone flux. Used to reduce oxidation.
@steamfreak Жыл бұрын
Yes, slag waste...
@_sequence_23483 жыл бұрын
And i should feel shame using an euro4 diesel.........
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Yup... :-(
@johnsamu3 жыл бұрын
All the steam trains in China have already gone now and have been replaced by high speed trains for passengers and diesel for freight. So regrettably the resolution of this video is very low (by today's standards) because it's a historical time document of a bygone era.
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
There are still some steam trains in regular use in China in industrial service, and only a small portion of the rail mileage could be considered high speed rail.
@johnsamu3 жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak Did you look at a RECENT map of the high speed rail network. It's already the most extensive in the world and is increasing RAPIDLY every year. I came to China (almost every year) since 2008 and I've never seen a steam train but I've travelled a lot of miles in a high speed train. In 2008 there was hardly any high speed train, but now they are everywhere. Fast, clean, reliable, quiet, cheap/effordable, my ideal mode of transport, it really beats the airplane.
@johnsamu3 жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak People (outside China) don't know or don't realize that everything develops and changes very fast every year. So a statement you made, maybe three years ago, for example about the presence of Steam trains might be already totally non-valid this year. I love Steam trains but they are not very loved by the Chinese because they have the "NEW is better" attitude. This attitude translates also in buildings/roads which can be torn down very rapidly to be changed by new projects. That said there will probably be some small steam trains in some backward areas but along the line they are now new electric or diesel.
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
Yes I keep track of working steam locomotives in China, there are definitely some still working today. I don't disagree with you regarding the extent of the high speed rail network. It is however a small percentage of rail route miles in China. And yes most lines are now diesel or electric. Just because you haven't seen steam locomotives working there does not mean they don't exist.
@ratking948 Жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak where do the steam lines still exist?
@jameshudson70532 жыл бұрын
So much for zero emissions!
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
The sky was thick there... 😢
@SuperMikado2825 ай бұрын
Have you tried to make steel with zero emissions? All industrialised countries did this.
@glenmccarthy84823 жыл бұрын
Surely this benign industrial activity could be playing no part in the de - stabilization of the worlds climate system.
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
No, I'm sure it just makes tiny clouds of local smog which disappear each night!
@TheTomyossarian3 жыл бұрын
Holy lung disease. Surreal.
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
I took up smoking there so I could have done fresh air...
@manoneunproblemadiplanarit79742 жыл бұрын
I treni a vapore porcamadonna
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@djscottdog13 жыл бұрын
Its a 3rd world country
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
Rapidly rising though.
@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke2 жыл бұрын
@@steamfreak very rapidly
@SuperMikado2825 ай бұрын
It most certainly isn't a third-world country as you so glibly put.You should visit China and inform yourself.
@HPSmugscraft3 жыл бұрын
China and India, not the US and Europe, are where Greta Thumberg needs to be doing her climate-scolding tours.
@steamfreak2 жыл бұрын
She seems to have disappeared these past couple of years...
@nicholascarver13 жыл бұрын
All that work for shit steel.
@steamfreak3 жыл бұрын
🤣 But there were good steam trains!
@SuperMikado2825 ай бұрын
You are an expert metallurgist, are you? Well, well, what are doing posting uninformed comments on YT?